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"Steven R. Newcomb" wrote: > It is not helpful to retreat into statements like "There > is nothing semantic about XML Namespaces", when in fact most people > use names in order to label things meaningfully. Most people > literally can't imagine using names for any other purpose. *Names* generally have meaning. XML namespaces don't. (Actually, XLink locator elements should only appear inside extended > XLinks, but I haven't found a formal machine-interpretable > expression of that constraint that I could use to define and > constrain architectures other than the XLink architecture, using the > same software to validate instances for conformance with such > context constraints. We could do at least that much with DTDs.) I think one could write an architectural DTD for XLink fairly easily, modulo the question of user-defined prefixes. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@r...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer) *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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